Posted on 05/25/2015 8:36:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"Messing with a gator and he won!" the video's description reads.
A motorist filming while taunting an alligator with his truck learned a valuable lesson when the reptile ripped into the front of the vehicle.
The "Gator vs. Truck" video, posted to YouTube by user keet246, shows the truck approach the alligator, which slowly backs away with bared jaws, and the driver can be heard saying, "Hey, watch my truck," when the gator gives a warning bump to the vehicle's front bumper.
The truck continues to slowly roll toward the gator, which responds by ferociously tearing off a portion of the vehicle's fender.
"Oh, that's nice," the driver says, "Son of a gun."
"Messing with a gator and he won!" the video's description reads.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...
It didn’t even look like a very big gator. What was it, six foot long?
Go Gators!
Those things should all be shot- wiped off the face of the earth.
They serve no purpose whatsoever but to kill
“Sit down on him, Amos....make it count.”
Aww...c'mon...they have a purpose in the hierarchy of things. Removing the gator from the order of things would have consequences.
Now that stinking fire ant...whole 'nother story.
I cannot for the life of me understand their damned purpose whatsoever.
But I never had a fire ant tear the bumper off my truck.
So...
How ‘bout dem gators?
The gator should have gone for the front tire and then wait for him to come out and change it.
Gators keep our ponds open, otherwise they would choke up completely with weeds in our year-round growing season. If it wasn’t for the big gator[s] in the lake across the field from me, it would be impossible to fish in it. They create prime habitat- deep holes- for largemouth bass.
They keep the adult Muscovy ducks in check in neighborhood ponds, though snapping turtles kill more ducks, going after the ducklings.
Out here away from town they also eat loose and stray dogs which helps in protecting our kids and also our livestock, especially turkeys and chickens. Dogs are a bigger threat than gators, and other people’s loose dogs kill a lot of livestock so it warms the cockles of my heart to see a chicken-eating dog stuffed in a gator’s fridge- [under a submerged log] for its later consumption.
Don’t mean to detract from your thread (very interesting and funny) but did you guys see ‘Bizarre Tattoos’ on the same page?
WHY do people do this to themselves?
Insane.
I would think that gators of a size to take a chicken killing dog would be big enough to take a child.
“Those things should all be shot- wiped off the face of the earth.
They serve no purpose whatsoever but to kill.”
Talking about gators - or muzzies?
Agree. Fire ants could go, too.
Have you heard of ‘crazy ants’?
“Those things should all be shot- wiped off the face of the earth.
They serve no purpose whatsoever but to kill.”
Talking about gators - or muzzies?
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Muzzies too
What was that...a Datsun.
Holy cow! That more-or-less medium-sized gator tore that flimsy truck a new one!
What a GREAT post!
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